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Join students from across our University for a behind-the-scenes look at life at Anglia Ruskin. Find out what they do on a daily basis, what they’re inspired by in class, the challenges they face and what they get up to outside of teaching hours.
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I've been so privileged to work alongside such passionate mentors in practice and such amazing role models at university, and it's with the help of these amazing teachers that I've come so far
- Sophie, BSc (Hons) Midwifery
As the New Year rolls in, it seems a fitting point to reflect on my time as a Children’s Nursing student so far. Already I am halfway through my training with just a year and a half to go until I am qualified. Read more…
The £1,000,000 question… Why did you want to become a midwife? This is a question I am asked more commonly than any other. It was a question that used to plague me in my application days out of fear that my answer was not good enough. Read more…
I had the privilege of being chosen by some of my lecturers and the Dean of the faculty for attending the Florence Nightingale Students Day… Read more…
You may have followed Emma’s blogs while she was studying child nursing here. Emma graduated in September 2015 and is now working at Watford General Hospital as a band staff nurse on a paediatric rotational programme. A few months into her new role, she shares her thoughts with you… Read more…
Coming onto the Adult Nursing course, one of the biggest questions on my mind at the time was ‘How am I going to manage a full-time course with placement when I have a child?&rsquo… Read more…
All of my family work in some form of health and care setting. You could say it’s in my DNA to want to work with people. Sex education. That’s where it started for me. That is what made me want to become a midwife, but more on that in future posts. Read more…
The summer before I started university was full of excitement at the prospect of leaving home, living on my own and starting afresh. Having always lived in the same, small city I was apprehensive but felt so ready to move out and start my life. Read more…
Leah Milne is a 3rd year Adult Nursing student based at our Cambridge campus. Here she gives an account of the Stop the Pressure campaign that will be happening on 5 June 2015. Read more…
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